“During Obama’s term, Democrats were uncomfortable with anything that might look like something other than full-throated support of the Affordable Care Act, and they didn’t want to do anything that might undermine the president,” Conyers’s senior legislative assistant Dan Riffle told Vox earlier this year. “But many members who weren’t on the bill, who have had their phones ringing off the hook, are now expressing interest. It’s percolating from the ground up.”

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